Different Default Settings in One Style Sheet?

[MinusMyThoughts]

i don't know what to call what i'm trying to do, so hopefully i can explain it adequately......i'd like to be able to set a default for something like text size inside a div called header, which will have multiple divs and other elements inside it. if i can avoid it, i'd like to be able to merely use a <p> tag, rather than needing to add <p class="headerText"> to every tag......but, when i get to the body, i'd like to reset that default text size, again without needing a class identifier......is there any way to set properties for a div that all contained elements will inherit?...thanks!love,jason

[boen_robot]

Ever heared of the child and descendant selectors? For example

div span

matches

<p>text<span>text</span>text</p><div> <h1>text<span>text</span>text</h1> <p>text<span>text</span>text</p> <span>text</span></div>

And

div > span

matches

<p>text<span>text</span>text</p><div> <h1>text<span>text</span>text</h1> <p>text<span>text</span>text</p> <span>text</span></div>

[MinusMyThoughts]

awesome. yeah, i don't know much about CSS. just enough to slowly hack through it......thanks!love,jason

[jesh]

div > span

Doesn't that fail in IE? Hence all of the IE hacks based off of that?

[boen_robot]

In IE6- yes. But I think (I haven't verified) it works in IE7.